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Are Summer Reading Programs Also Irrelevant?
I suspect that this is a controversial topic, and since ‘Tis the season’ for summer reading, let’s see how controversial. A library director friend told me that in some places the summer reading programs are still a good thing, although … Continue reading
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Zombie Librarianship
What a great perspective on our profession. Sally Pewhairangi’s Blog post at finding heroes borrowed the concept from John Quiggin’s book Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us. The premise was highly fitting to the free market economic … Continue reading
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Introducing Google’s Knowledge Graph – Things, Not Strings
Google is telling us how we will learn in the future. It’s pretty much that simple. Google’s Blog post on May 16 – Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings – announced that it is developing a new search tool. … Continue reading
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Is the 21st Century Library a Fad?
When I saw this Huffington Post headline – The “Pop-Up” Library: A Mini-Movement of Knowledge – I just had to respond to what appears to be almost a counter culture movement (Actually I hate to give it that much credit, … Continue reading
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eBooks For Libraries Campaign
Kansas is in the forefront of the campaign to bring more eBooks to more Libraries. Last summer I reported that Kansas was one of the partners in a venture with 3M to find “a solution to digital libraries, and will … Continue reading
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Libraries Are Obsolete – An Oxford Style Debate – Critique
Finally available online at http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/hlsc/oxford_debate, the 1hr:40min video was both stimulating and disappointing. For those of you who don’t have 1:40 or patience to wade through the stilted academician rhetoric to come to any conclusions, I thought I’d offer my … Continue reading
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More Evidence FOR a Bachelor’s Degree in LIS
Last December I wrote the Post Library Science Ranks #4 in Highest Unemployment. According to the Wall Street Journal post From College Major to Career, “Choosing the right college major can make a big difference in students’ career prospects, in … Continue reading
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Curation – A New 21st Century Librarianship Skill?
Curation is the act of individuals with a passion for a content area to find, contextualize, and organize information. Curators provide a consistent update regarding what’s interesting, happening, and cool in their focus. Curators tend to have a unique and … Continue reading
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Libraries Are Obsolete
Is the Motion of an Oxford-style debate at Harvard tomorrow. Harvard Libraries Strategic Conversations reports that… On Wednesday, April 18, Harvard Library Strategic Conversations will sponsor an Oxford-style debate on the role of libraries. … Oxford Union debates are similar … Continue reading
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Big-City Public Libraries vs. Statistics
I’m always skeptical of “data”, because I’ve seen enough data reporting to know it’s all about how one configures the parameters of the data collection that determine the outcome. It’s a commonly used quote from Samuel Clemens that “There’s liars, … Continue reading
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